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Gravitational field of a global monopole
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We present an approximate solution of the Einstein equations for the metric outside a monopole resulting from the breaking of a global O(3) symmetry. The monopole exerts practically no gravitational force on nonrelativistic matter, but the space around it has a deficit solid angle, and all light rays are deflected by the same angle, independent of the impact parameter.
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- Authors
- Barriola, M., & Vilenkin, A.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1989-07-24
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 341-343
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
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- W2022318322
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- en
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